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2:45 PM ET, January 3, 2016

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Les Zaitz / Oregonian:
Militia takes over Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters  —  Update at 9:15 p.m.: Statement from Harney County Sheriff Dave Ward: “After the peaceful rally was completed today, a group of outside militants drove to the Malheur Wildlife Refuge, where they seized and occupied the refuge headquarters.
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David Atkins / Washington Monthly:
The Armed Domestic Terrorists in Oregon Should Be Treated Just as ISIS Terrorists Would Be  —  The big story of the day is the armed seizure of an empty federal building in rural Oregon by a group of domestic terrorists, some of whom are the sons of federal tax cheat and freeloader Cliven Bundy.
Discussion: Mother Jones and Mashable
Sundance / The Last Refuge:
Full Story on What's Going on In Oregon - Militia Take Over Malheur National Wildlife Refuge In Protest to Hammond Family Persecution...  Grab a coffee, because this is soup-to-nuts.  —  Many people will awaken today to the news of approximately 100 to 150 armed militia taking control …
Washington Examiner:
Three of Cliven Bundy's sons, militia seize federal building in Oregon
Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump: Clinton has ruined the world  —  Donald Trump pointed to Hillary Clinton as the cause of “so many” of the world's current problems in an interview to air Sunday, attacking, among other decisions, the then-New York senator's vote to authorize the invasion of Iraq in 2002.
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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Trump dares Bill Clinton to talk about women's issues
Alana Abramson / ABC News:
Trump Responds to Al-Shabaab Video: ‘I Have to Say What I Have to Say’
Discussion: Politico and abc13.com
Guardian:   Clinton campaign hopes Bill will deliver a New Hampshire ‘comeback kid’ boost
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Marco Rubio Doesn't Add Up  —  MATH was never my strongest subject, so maybe I'm just not crunching the numbers right.  —  But the more I stare at them, the less sense Marco Rubio makes.  —  Rubio as the front-runner, I mean.  As the probable Republican nominee.
Discussion: Washington Post and Balloon Juice
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Kevin Cirilli / Bloomberg Business:
Trump Backers Say Their New Hampshire Voter Database Is ‘Huge’
Discussion: Politico
Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:
Trump: Iran deal was so bad it's suspicious  —  Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump says the nuclear deal with Iran is so bad, he is close to wondering whether it was done poorly on purpose.  —  “It's almost like there has to be something else going on,” he said Saturday night …
Eugene Scott / CNN:
CNN to host Obama town hall on guns in America  —  Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama will join CNN's Anderson Cooper Thursday for an exclusive one-hour live town hall on gun control.  —  Obama will sit down with Cooper at 8 p.m. ET for the event, titled “Guns in America.”
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Fiorina defends ‘tongue-in-cheek’ Rose Bowl tweet  —  Carly Fiorina responded to critics on Sunday who said she was pandering to Iowa voters by rooting for the University of Iowa over her alma mater, Stanford, in the Rose Bowl.  —  The Republican presidential hopeful said a tweet expressing …
Michael Walsh / New York Post:
The myth of the cop killing ‘epidemic’  —  To hear the media tell it, America is in the grip of an unprecedented crime wave, an orgy of wanton murder in which heavily armed thugs randomly gun down innocent unarmed people, some of them teens, just for sport.  —  Except that these homicidal goons …
Joel Kotkin / The Daily Beast:
How Liberals Are The New Autocrats  —  Progressives may preach the joys of localism, but the trend in government is all the other way in everything from climate change to the economic complexion of your neighborhood.  —  The End of Localism  —  This could be how our experiment with grassroots democracy finally ends.
Associated Press:
SCALIA DISMISSES CONCEPT OF RELIGIOUS NEUTRALITY IN SPEECH  —  METAIRIE, La. (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says the idea of religious neutrality is not grounded in the country's constitutional traditions and that God has been good to the U.S. exactly because Americans honor him.
 
 
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